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| This Friday, October 9, on the terrace of the commercial premises of the Alfonso XII dock in Cartagena, at 9:30 am | The winning project of Plaza Mayor, La Ventana del Puerto, which will be carried out on the Alfonso XII dock in Cartagena, was presented this Friday, September 9, by the Mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, the President of the Port Authority, Yolanda Muñoz, the director of the winning team, José Manuel Chacón, and the President of the Autonomous Community, Fernando López Miras.
The Deputy Mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, and other members of the project, including Enrique de Andrés, also attended.“The city of Cartagena has many hallmarks; rich heritage, spectacular beaches, delicious gastronomy, enviable and unique landscapes ...
but if there is one element that has marked our past, present and future, it is the port ”, declared the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, who recalled that“ talking about port is talking about Cartagena ”.It is a project that will result in “a friendly, open, supportive port, where neighbors, tourists and visitors can enjoy and surprise us.
Also a place where activities are carried out and with the ability to adapt at any time to the needs of Cartagena.
In short, a port that becomes the best showcase for those who come to our city by sea.
May it symbolize and represent us.
We hope it will be final and value Cartagena, explained Castejón.The project has a clear objective, "to benefit and serve residents and tourists with an embellished, comfortable and fresh space," said Yolanda Muñoz.
“We are talking about 243,000 square meters of seafront, from the whale's tail to the Sason crane roundabout.
There are five areas of action, four phases of execution that suppose an integration space where it is necessary to act with paving and areas of vegetation ”.The project has been selected by a jury of professional experts and recognized social prestige, made up of professional associations, technical universities, both the UPCT and UCAM, COEC, the Chamber of Commerce and the three administrations.
The deadlines are three months for the drafting of the execution project, it will be tendered in two to three months, and the nine-month execution will begin.
"In the middle of next year we will be able to see the start of the performance and enjoy the first phase of the Plaza Mayor execution", Yolanda Muñoz has announced.The regional president, López Miras, also appeared at the event, who stated that “Cartagena has to look at the sea and Cartagena people have to find in this maritime heritage an environment to live, enjoy and invest as well.
With this project, what is intended is that this place is one of the reference centers of the city ”.For their part, members of the winning project Plaza Mayor, José Manuel Chacón and Enrique de Andrés, have made a detailed presentation of the project and have shown an explanatory video.DRAFTThe first prize for the best project presented at the Plaza Mayor de Cartagena contest is La ventana del Puerto, whose budget amounts to 28.8 million euros.
Eleven teams were submitted, last June, to the contest of projects of Study of developments of uses and landscape integration in the seafront of Cartagena launched by the Port Authority. Among the novelties is an experimentation space in the urban museum of the Navy and Navigation, the agora in heroes of Santiago de Cuba and Cavite, an information mural in the cruise terminal, a space for exercise called the forest-garden, various underground, and a space for research, conservation and experimentation of marine fauna and flora.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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